Selected Patents

United States Patent 6,112,221. A System and Method for Scheduling
Webservers with a Quality-of-Service Guarantee for Each User.
Michael A. Bender, Soumen Chakrabarti, and Shanmugavelayutham
Muthukrishnan. Awarded August 29, 2000.

United States Patent 7,565,657. Allocating Application to Group of
Consecutive Processors in Fault-Tolerant Deadlock-Free Routing Path
Defined by Routers Obeying Same Rules for Path Selection. Vitus
Leung, Michael A. Bender, David Bunde, and Cynthia Phillips.
Awarded July 21, 2009.

Carl M. Bender, Michael A. Bender, Erik D. Demaine, and Sándor P. Fekete.
"What
Is the Optimal Shape of a City?"
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 37(1):147-159, 2004.
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical
and General #1 Most Downloaded Article in 2004.
See Kuro5him a popular description of this paper.